The Biofriendly Podcast

This week's episode is a throwback to our original Biofriendly Podcast show style where Noel and Jacob dig in to a few environmental topics while allowing humorous banter to take the lead as we celebrate Earth Day. Remember to make every day Earth Day!

For 'This Week in Green' we've got the latest and greatest environmental good news with containers heated by squid technology, the individual actions of people DO make a difference, using solar panels at night and how children view animals and food. We close out the show by asking you to do too much this Earth Day! 

It's time for another This Week In Green on The Biofriendly Podcast, and our feel-good stories are about new sustainable toys from Mattel, progress on nuclear fusion, futuristic beehives and blankets with climate change data. It's a weird and wacky one, so buckle up and enjoy the ride. 

It may be April fools, but all of our news is true for 'This Week in Green' as we discuss pig poop power, human composting, climate victory gardens, and a futuristic machine called the Carbon Crusher! This week's episode of The Biofriendly Podcast wraps up nicely with helpful tips on how you can reduce your shopping waste.

For 'This Week In Green' on March 18th we've got an underwater museum, CO2 beer bubbles, desert veggies, and the biggest dating app blunder of all time! You don't want to miss this week's episode of The Biofriendly Podcast where we offer up greenwashing advice to businesses. 

For this week in green we've got the real life Electric Avenue for you to rock down to, Samsung casts a fishing net to make phones, South Korea soaks up the sun with giant solar plum blossoms, and a new satellite that will see everything meteorologists cannot. You don't want to miss this week's episode of The Biofriendly Podcast where we wrap up the show with things that are surprisingly still leg...

We're back with a brand new 'This Week In Green' on The Biofriendly Podcast for March 4, 2022! This week we've got tree batteries, a diaper highway, solar powered clothing, super seawomen, and more! 

If you're wondering what's the latest and greatest in green news this week, The Biofriendly Podcast has got you covered for February 25, 2022. This week we've got how Minecraft is teaching kids about climate change, greenhouses going red, guerrilla gardening on hoverboards, manatees are eating salad, and more! 

It's time for a new This Week In Green on The Biofriendly Podcast for February 18, 2022. We've got clean heating from a coal mine, blade bridges, crocs that eat dinosaurs, a diving duo making a difference, C02 steaks and more!

After 3 years, The Biofriendly Podcast is switching gears by focusing on what's happening in environmental news each week! It's 'This Week In Green' for February 11, 2022 with no more whaling, recycled building blocks, insect citizens, a tired crocodile, and more.

The Earth provides so many natural resources for us to utilize responsibly, and the latest environmental buzz is all about algae! From carbon-neutral fuels to high-protein food, microalgae is even being used to... build buildings? This week we break down the benefits of architectural algae, can you turn it into clothing, and why you should never build a chili dog stand next to a scenic cliffside.

KFC is working with a Russian bio-printing company and McDonalds is releasing something called a McPlant, but what does this all mean for our fast food of the future? This week we discuss what it means to be a flexitarian, when will food be able to appear out of nowhere like a sci-fi movie, and is Jacob actually a young Fred Krueger? 

After a brief hiatus, The Biofriendly Podcast is back and stronger than ever after both Noel and Jacob fought off Omicron during the holidays! Reunited and it feels so good as they talk about why 2022 is going to be a great year, the importance of always looking up, and keeping our eye on the ball for planet Earth. 

The tradition continues and silliness abounds in this year's New Year's Special with our good buddy, Clayton Cogswell. We laugh, and laugh some more, and occasionally get to some feel-good news stories as we wrap up this unusual year. So sit back and enjoy our last episode of the 2021 say Happy New Year as we Auld Lang Syne-off!

The Holiday tradition continues as we bring back friend of the podcast, Shawn Kohne to help wrap up 2021 with a Top 10 list of entertainment in 2021 made our spirits bright! Shawn shares some exciting new discoveries, Noel admits he has one episode left of every show, and Jacob ruins any chance we have of making a movie with Tom Hanks.

We've all read the headlines about cows and how they release methane emissions that negatively effect the environment, but how did this even become an issue? This week on The Biofriendly Podcast we put a few cow myths out to pasture, discuss ways to eat less meat, and what is a fart backpack and how can we get one? 

We are weeks away from Christmas, and whether you're ordering online or braving the in-store madness, The Biofriendly Podcast has got a few ideas on how you can keep your holiday shopping green. So get your list ready as we walk through some sustainable choices, why planning is everything, and is Noel one of Sioux City's most infamous gangsters from the 1920s?

The challenges with our climate make it difficult for the agriculture business to maintain sustainability, so what does that mean for the future of farming? This week we invited Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Local Bounti, Craig Hurlbert, to talk about growing leafy greens indoors, how this will impact our food waste, and why the longest journey of lettuce should be a Pixar film!

Gathering around the table to feast with loved ones is a Thanksgiving tradition, but it can also be a time where we fight, overindulge, and lose sight of what we should be grateful for. This week, we talk about some simple choices that might help the holiday be less wasteful, why the turkey would've been a better national bird, are Noel and Jacob a couple of goodfellas?

Do you want to make a difference every single day? There's an app for that! This week The Biofriendly Podcast welcomes Maxime Leroux, creator of the One Save/Day app which encourages users to do just one eco-friendly action each day. As a young student, Maxime tells the story about how he built the app from scratch, the evolution of buttons, and why every town needs to have a square!

We all know that arachnophobia is a real fear, but it's important to learn more about our eight-legged friends and how important they are to our environment! This week we unraveled the web of lies around some spider myths, shared non-lethal techniques to send them packing, and why Jacob has a built-in deterrent that drives spiders and Noel insane. 

Have you ever stopped and wondered when we suddenly switched from bars of soap to overly-fragrant plastic bottles of cleansing body wash? This week we sat down with Dr. Barbara Paldus, CEO of Codex Beauty Labs, to learn more about the history of soapy showers, why minimalism is key in sustainability, and discuss Noel's perfectly understandable red spots that are completely normal.

We all dread seeing that check engine light appear in our cars, but did you know that proper vehicle maintenance is the more sustainable choice? This week on The Biofriendly Podcast we talk about everything from oil changes to car washes, why road rage is bad for the environment, and is Noel an expert on 1970s fashion??

It's the spooky season once again, and Mother Nature has cooked up quite a few scares of her own on this week's episode of The Biofriendly Podcast. From gigantic flowers that smell like rotting flesh to blood-soaked vacation spots in the Arctic, we explore some of the most horrific natural occurrences around the world that just might be caused by... faeries?!

This week we traveled all the way to Las Vegas to sit down with the President of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), Ramiro Cavazos, to discuss their commitment of representing the needs of citizens and small business owners. As we learned more about how the USHCC actively promotes the growth and development of more than 4.7 million Hispanic-owned businesses, we also discussed the impor...